The Osceola times., 1887-04-30


Or the night Of the 18th the barn OF
John Griifiths, four miles south Of Bailey
vile, Kas., was burned, together with
seventeen horses and thirteen head OF
cattle. This is the third year in success
sion that Mr.. Griffith has lost his barn
and STOCK by fire.
TnE Chicago limited express struck
John Becker, his wife and two-year-old
child at the Mannheim crossing of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Lancaster, Pa,
on the 18th, killing both parents instantly.
The child was found on the cowcatcher
uninJured.
AIR. CuySISaHAM, one Of the murder
ers OF Captain Slx-Kiler in the Indian
Territory, has been caught and landed in
jail.
The Jury In the case of Napoleon B. Met
calfe. for the killing OF Miss Frances Fox
at Middleton, Conn. last January, re-
turned verdict OF acquittal on the Goth,
on the ground Of insanity. lie was or
dered to be confined for twenty years in
the State Hospital for the Insane by Judge
Torrance.
Tns elevator owned by tho Northwest
ern Elevator Company of Minneapolis. To-
Gated at Wilmar, MINI, was burned on
the 20th. Twenty thousand bushels of
wheat were destroyed; loss about So2,U)
TnE preliminary hearings in the post
poned Pan-H Handle railroad robbery cases
came up at Pittsburgh on the Goth before
Deputy Mayor Gripp, and all the prisoners
waived the preliminary examinations and
were held for trial at court The cases
will probably be tried during tho present
term.
OK the 2ist George Miller Of New York,
determined on suicide, cut his wrists
open, stabbed himself in the breast, and
jumped down two stories, finally succeed
ing in killing himself
Or the ?lst, while walking on the traca
OF the Baltimore " Ohio railroad, near
Everson, Pa, two ladies, Mrs. Gettemy
and Mrs Anderson, were struck by n
shifting engine and terribly mingled.
The former died in few hours, and Mrs.
Anderson Is In serious condition.
GovERSoR FORAKER of Ohio has COM
muted the death sentence of Delaney JEFF
ferson Bowling TO Imprisonment for life
Bowling was convicted Of murder IN
the first degree for the kill
ing Of John Douglass, and
sentenced by the Common Pleas Court of
Licking County to be hanged
A HURRICANE swept over portions OF Ar.
kansas, Missouri and Kansas on the 22i
A large number Of people are reported
killed, many injured, and avast amount OF
property destroyed.
FRANK NJ ScorT, the bookkeeper of
Webster a. Co., New York, who embczzled
el0l, ,Si5, received sentence of six years
on the 2,d.
WOLF PINK, Polish pawnbroker, was
enticei from his place of business at Lead
City, OAK, on the % and while he was
out his place was robbed Of e., 800 In
jewelry. Five men have been arrested on
suspicion.
A FRIGHT train going west on the
Grand Trunk railway went through the
bridge over Nash's creek, near Morris
burg, Ont, on the 22l. The engineer and
fireman were killed and brakeman was
badly injured. Thirteen loaded cars
were piled into the gorge and smashed TO
atoms.
A cHoRIsrER in the Military Academy
church at St. Petersburg committed sui
eide on the 2lst by jumping from win
dow OF his house. On being searched the
house was discovered TO be a Nihilist rem
devious. A quantity of dynamite, arms
and revolutionary documents were found.
SAMUEL ID. CONNER, wealthy gentle
man, owner OF considerable mining prop
erty In the West, principally in Colorado,
and step-son Of General William Lilly,
OF Carson County, Pa, committed suicide
In the Monument cemetery, Philadelphia,
on the 22d, by shooting himself through
the heart. He had been married the day
previous
SHEEHY, the armed Pnkerton special
who killed boy in Jersey City, N. j., las,
January at the time of the coal-handlers'
strike, has been indicted for man.
slaughter.
on the pa, fire in the northwestern por-
ton OF Davenport. Ia, DESTROYED property
to the value of $1,000 Eight buildings
were destroyed.
OK the s3l an attempt was made "a
assassinate George b. Kulp, prominent
lawyer OF Wilkesbarre, Pa, by l.. w, De
Witt, another lawyer. His aim was de-
fective, and be failed in his attempt, and
be insane
manager of the Hotel del Monte, at Mon
terey, Cal, until it was recently destroyed
by fire, was arrested on charge Of hav'
OFFICER JonN MErz, of South Bend,
Ind, who shot a trampa few days since In
a fight with gang OF them, was held by
the coroner's Jury on a charge of man
slaughter.
OS the 23i terr. BILE wreck was caused
ut Paterson, N. j., by the explosion of q
rotary rag boiler in III, Ivanhoe paper
mill. a large portion of the building was
demolished, and Booth Il Co.'S silk mill,
across the street, was badly demoralized
by the flying boiler crashing into that
structure. About twenty persons were
injured, some Of them severely.
OK the cath, bv railroad accident on
the Northern Pacific in Washington Ter
rtory, six men were killed and eighteen
injured.
A NEW murder mystery is reported from
Cleveland, o., almos a duplicate of the one
committed at the same spot almost sixteen
years ago. Miss Maggie McCarty is the
victim.
AT Arnout Keni, Asia Minor, a con-
fiagration occurred on the 2Sd, destroying
five hundred houses and killing many
people. No particulars have been 10
ceivei
GA the o)d Miss Annie NJ. Lesley. the
only daughter of the late James Lesley,
of Philadelphia, accidentally shot herself
In the right temple a. the residence OF
George l.. Nichols, In Brooklyn Miss
Lesley was twenty-one years old, pretty,
an expert oarswoman, tennis player and
a crack shot with q revolver or rife. The
wound proved fatal
ON the 93d the wife of DR.. W. W. Will
n,1t 4 fpt t,,,ais A
suicide. She first took a dose of corrosive
subhmate, then cut her throat from ear to
ear with razor, and wound up by jump
ing from second. story window. She
fingered in agony until the morning of the